About Privacy

Bell 2022-03-24 09:02:58

"No one will tell you the truth, they will only tell you opinions. If you want to know the truth, you have to find it yourself."
Everything has two sides, just like the dilemma train driver in the open class "Justice", in a pinch , which way to choose, and no matter which way you choose, someone will stand on the highest point of morality or law and scold you. That's the choice conundrum between Julian and Assange, I think. So, at this point, we can't judge who's right and who's wrong, we just stick to our beliefs and do what we think is right.
Watching this drama, I actually think more about privacy. When we don’t face the public social side, we all have thoughts and things we don’t want to let others know. Human life, since childhood, is the embarrassment of diplomats' comments on leaders of other countries being known behind their backs. Can we tolerate what we don't want to be published in front of the world, like being stripped naked? A monistic person will say, if you don't do it, who can do what to you, but what we produce is not just the moral condemnation and legal sanctions caused by the discovery of the wrong things we do, sometimes, only we ourselves Thoughts that may be filthy but harmless to others, if these will be released uncontrollably by others, just like watching porn at home and being caught by the police, will there still be trust in this world?
I remember a short sci-fi story written by Liu Cixin. It probably means that someone invented a time playback device. Anyone can see what you have done. There is no longer any privacy. In the end, there is no evil in this world, but human civilization It soon perished, because human civilization was originally built on the diversity of thoughts, just like there is no hell for comparison, how can we feel the happiness of heaven.

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  • Julian Assange: Man is least himself when he talks with his own person. But if you give him a mask, he will tell you the truth. Two people, and a secret: the beginning of all conspiracies. More people, and, more secrets. But if we could find one moral man, one whistle-blower. Someone willing to expose those secrets, that man can topple the most powerful and most repressive of regimes.

  • Sarah Shaw: Do you think the President of Turkmenistan will be more upset that I called him a practised liar or that I called him vain?

    James Boswell: I don't think he's worried about the opinions of a mid-level foreign attaché.

    Sarah Shaw: That's why I signed Hillary's name to it.